2014-2024 Form

You are required to complete a Form W-8BEN if you are a non-resident alien and earned Royalty income (in this case) from a US-based source.The purpose of the form is to alert the IRS to the fact you are earning income from the US, even though you are not a citizen or a resident of the US. The US is entitled to tax revenues from your US-based earnings and would, without the form, have no way of knowing about you or your income.To ensure they receive their “fair” share, they require the payor to withhold 30% of the payment due to you, before issuing a check for the remainder to you. If they don’t withhold and/don’t report the payment to you, they may not be able to deduct the payment as an expense, and are subject to penalties for failing to withhold - not to mention forced to pay the 30% amount over and above what they pay to you. They therefore will not release any payment without receiving the Form W-8BEN.Now, Nepal happens not to have a tax treaty with the US. If it did and you were subject to Nepalese taxes on that income, you could claim a credit for the taxes paid to another country, up to the entire amount of the tax. Even still, you are entitled to file a US Form 1040N, as the withholding is charged on the gross proceeds and there may be expenses that can be deducted from that amount before arriving at the actual tax due. In that way, you may be entitled to a refund of some or all of the backup withholding.That is another reason why you file the form - it allows you to file a return in order to apply for a refund.In order to complete the form, you can go to the IRS website to read the instructions, or simply go here: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/...

I strongly recommend purchasing a tax program, Turbo tax, H&R block etc.These programs will ask you questions and they will fill out the forms for you.You just print it out and mail it in. (with a check, if you owe anything)I used to use an accountant but these programs found more deductions.

Download a blank Form W-9To get started, download the latest Form W-9 from the IRS website at https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/.... Check the date in the top left corner of the form as it is updated occasionally by the IRS. The current revision should read (Rev. December 2014). Click anywhere on the form and a menu appears at the top that will allow you to either print or save the document. If the browser you are using doesn’t allow you to type directly into the W-9 then save the form to your desktop and reopen using signNow Reader.General purposeThe general purpose of Form W-9 is to provide your correct taxpayer identification number (TIN) to an individual or entity (typically a company) that is required to submit an “information return” to the IRS to report an amount paid to you, or other reportable amount.U.S. personForm W-9 should only be completed by what the IRS calls a “U.S. person”. Some examples of U.S. persons include an individual who is a U.S. citizen or a U.S. resident alien. Partnerships, corporations, companies, or associations created or organized in the United States or under the laws of the United States are also U.S. persons.If you are not a U.S. person you should not use this form. You will likely need to provide Form W-8.Enter your informationLine 1 – Name: This line should match the name on your income tax return.Line 2 – Business name: This line is optional and would include your business name, trade name, DBA name, or disregarded entity name if you have any of these. You only need to complete this line if your name here is different from the name on line 1. See our related blog, What is a disregarded entity?Line 3 – Federal tax classification: Check ONE box for your U.S. federal tax classification. This should be the tax classification of the person or entity name that is entered on line 1. See our related blog, What is the difference between an individual and a sole proprietor?Limited Liability Company (LLC). If the name on line 1 is an LLC treated as a partnership for U.S. federal tax purposes, check the “Limited liability company” box and enter “P” in the space provided. If the LLC has filed Form 8832 or 2553 to be taxed as a corporation, check the “Limited liability company” box and in the space provided enter “C” for C corporation or “S” for S corporation. If it is a single-member LLC that is a disregarded entity, do not check the “Limited liability company” box; instead check the first box in line 3 “Individual/sole proprietor or single-member LLC.” See our related blog, What tax classification should an LLC select?Other (see instructions) – This line should be used for classifications that are not listed such as nonprofits, governmental entities, etc.Line 4 – Exemptions: If you are exempt from backup withholding enter your exempt payee code in the first space. If you are exempt from FATCA reporting enter your exemption from FATCA reporting code in the second space. Generally, individuals (including sole proprietors) are not exempt from backup withholding. See the “Specific Instructions” for line 4 shown with Form W-9 for more detailed information on exemptions.Line 5 – Address: Enter your address (number, street, and apartment or suite number). This is where the requester of the Form W-9 will mail your information returns.Line 6 – City, state and ZIP: Enter your city, state and ZIP code.Line 7 – Account numbers: This is an optional field to list your account number(s) with the company requesting your W-9 such as a bank, brokerage or vendor. We recommend that you do not list any account numbers as you may have to provide additional W-9 forms for accounts you do not include.Requester’s name and address: This is an optional section you can use to record the requester’s name and address you sent your W-9 to.Part I – Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN): Enter in your taxpayer identification number here. This is typically a social security number for an individual or sole proprietor and an employer identification number for a company. See our blog, What is a TIN number?Part II – Certification: Sign and date your form.For additional information visit w9manager.com.

The Indian Income-Tax department has made the process of filing of income tax returns simplified and easy to understand.However, that is applicable only in case where you don’t have incomes under different heads. Let’s say, you are earning salary from a company in India, the company deducts TDS from your salary. In such a scenario, it’s very easy to file the return.Contrary to this is the scenario, where you have income from business and you need to see what all expenses you can claim as deduction while calculating the net taxable income.You can always signNow out to a tax consultant for detailed review of your tax return.

The instructions are available here 1040EZ (2014)

Here are the line by line instructions Page on irs.gov, if you still are having problems, I suggest you contact a US tax professional to complete the form for you.

People seem to forget that we had been in an economic downturn since the beginning of 2008 that really fell through the floor at the end of 2008, just before President Obama took office.This had two main effects on the debt: First, it decreased tax revenues by a lot. The vast majority of federal revenues available for discretionary (i.e., not Social Security or Medicare) spending come from some form of income tax, either the individual income tax (which is the form you fill out every year) or the corporate income tax (paid by businesses). When incomes fall, the amount of tax revenue the government takes in falls.Funnily enough, the recession resulted in a lot of lost jobs and closing businesses, so this happened:Both individual and corporate income tax receipts were down by almost $200 billion each from 2007. The resulting ~$400 billion decrease in revenue was a gigantic hole in a discretionary federal budget that was only about $1,100 billion in FY2008.That’s the revenue side. On the expenditure side, there was this thing called the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, better known as just “the stimulus”. The idea, thinking back to introductory macro, was that the government should step in to fill the economic void left by consumer spending and investment due to the recession, with the immediate goal of stanching job losses. Congress allocated a $787 billion combination of tax cuts and new government spending to do this.Because of this, from 2009 to 2012 the federal government ran a deficit topping 6% of GDP for four straight years. But as the recovery proceeded, income tax revenues came back up, and since the stimulus was a one-time event spending came back down quite rapidly, so that by FY 2015 the deficit was back down below 2.7% of GDP, the 40-year average from 1965 to 2014.I don't want to be the guy to say “well if you ignore Obama’s first term, his deficit record’s the second-best of all the presidents since Carter”, because that just sounds like I'm jumping through a lot of hoops. But you can't separate the fiscal policy of the Obama presidency from the times it for which it was enacted.By the way, that “debt per citizen/taxpayer” metric? Totally useless at best, and actively detrimental to economic policymaking at worst. For the US national debt graphic you've got there, the problem is that using that metric implies that 1) we eventually have to pay back every dollar of the debt (we don't, and it'd be a catastrophic idea to do so), and 2) that every taxpayer in America would be required to cough up, on demand, an equal amount of money to pay off the debt immediately (which isn't how our tax system works, since income and wealth are both extremely right-skewed). And for the total US debt, that includes all the debt owed by consumers, homeowners, and businesses as well as by the federal government. If you want an honest look at federal policy affecting the debt, I don't recommend you look at that number.

I hate when people ask a question, then rather than answer, someone jumps in and tells them they don't need to know--but today, I will be that guy, because this is serious.Why oh why do you think you can do this yourself?Two things to consider:People who get a masters degree in Accounting then go get a CPA then start doing taxes--only then do some of them start specializing in international accounting.  I've taught Accounting at the college-level, have taken tax classes beyond that, and wouldn't touch your return.Tax professionals generally either charge by the form or by the hour. Meaning you can sit and do this for 12 hours, or you can pay a CPA by the hour to do it, or you can go to an H&R Block that has flat rates and will do everything but hit Send for free.  So why spend 12 hours doing it incorrectly, destined to worry about the IRS putting you in jail, bankrupting you, or deporting you for the next decade when you can get it done professionally for $200-$300?No, just go get it done right.